Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund (NFJ) Competitors

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) and Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund (NYSE:NFJ) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Is AGD or NFJ more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is AGD or NFJ a better dividend stock?

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Do analysts prefer AGD or NFJ?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Which has higher valuation and earnings, AGD or NFJ?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	$9.11M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund	$96.39M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AGD or NFJ?

Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund received 38 more outperform votes than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.86% of users gave Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Outperform Votes 108 62.79%	Underperform Votes 64 37.21%
Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund	Outperform Votes 146 69.86%	Underperform Votes 63 30.14%

Does the media refer more to AGD or NFJ?

In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund. Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's score of 0.72 indicating that Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Virtus Dividend, Interest & Premium Strategy Fund beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.